From Quillette: Marx Deserves Better Critics. If Marx wanted better critics, maybe he shouldn’t have devised an economic system that sucks so much. As someone in the comments notes: Marx does not deserve better critics, because his ideas are so bad both in theory and in practice that it is a waste of time 150+… Continue reading Not the Real Marxism

Articles that challenge conventional wisdom frequently go viral, especially if such wisdom is unsubstantiated, as part of the recent backlash online (offline, people are less intelligent and more impressionable, which is why people still shell out thousands of dollars for useless Tony Robins seminars) against sentimentalism and bullshit. As an example, a recent the galmour.com… Continue reading The ’90s and now, part 4

The NYTs retracts the only true thing it has ever published. The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove spoke with Murphy in the wake of the newspaper’s publication of a second controversial cartoon that drew critical condemnation from the Jewish community–after a first cartoon, which the paper now admits was antisemitic, was retracted and then subsequently apologized… Continue reading Deleted for Truth

One question that has vexed me for awhile is how and why trans issues and trans people have so much influence and such a large voice despite being such a small minority. “A survey in 2016, from the Williams Institute, estimated that 0.6% of U.S. adults identify as transgender. Studies from several nations, including the… Continue reading The trans sports debate

A long essay from The Washington Post The strongmen strike back: Authoritarianism has reemerged as the greatest threat to the liberal democratic world — a profound ideological, as well as strategic, challenge. And we have no idea how to confront it, by Robert Kagan. And, of course, the United States has been experiencing its own… Continue reading The Myth that Refuses to Die

Many on the left justify affirmative action by arguing that racial groups that get preferential treatment are only slightly less meritocratic than better-performing groups and or that such differences are small. As this excellent presentation by Glenn Loury shows (starts at 15 minutes in), the disparities and amount of favoritism given to blacks is huge,… Continue reading Affirmative action: much worse than expected

One thing I have noticed is, is how there is so much fact-checking and how little tolerance there is for bullshit online, especially on Reddit and in the comments. As the viralness of mundane, non-politicized topics shows, smart people–especially in recent years with the rise of the IDW–are tired of: moralizing sentimentalism the imposition of… Continue reading The ’90s and now, part 3

Facebook stock is surging higher on yet another quarter of huge earnings: Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak believes ad sales will only grow bigger with Instagram’s promise as an e-commerce tool. In raising his price target on Facebook shares to $195 from $190 on April 9, Nowak estimates Instagram could add $4 billion in incremental… Continue reading More correct tech & stock predictions

The liberal media is celebrating Trump’s polls “falling five points” after the Mueller report, but as shown below, you literally have two contradicting headlines within a day of each other. Which one is correct? According to 538, which is probably the most reliable meta-poll, Trump’s approval rating fell from 42.3 to 41.3, which is insignificant.… Continue reading Trump approval rating holds steady

Every day, there are headlines and predictions about how “college is a bubble,” or about the “trillions of dollars of student loan debt,” or how the “student loan bubble must burst,” and yet, as the years pass, tuition and debt keeps going up, and the people who keep predicting bubble and crisis must revise their… Continue reading Why the student loan and college ‘bubble’ won’t be bursting anytime soon